The Doncaster Free Press is joining forces with police and the local council in a bid to stamp out crime.

The £400,000 drive, Cracking Crime Together, aims to make Doncaster a safer place to live by tackling the causes of crime, diverting children from criminal involvement and improving home security.

The huge project is being funded by the Home Office crime reduction programme and will run for a year.

Central Doncaster and some of the surrounding areas have a burglary rate of one-and-a-half times the national average.

Free Press editor Merrill Diplock said: “I was extremely pleased to be approached by the Doncaster Crime and Disorder Partnership to join this initiative.

“Every week crime, often burglary, features in the Free Press, whether it is a report of an incident or a court case, and I know from my editor’s postbag that it is an issue that affects a huge number of our readers.

“The efforts being made to tackle crime is the other side of the coin and over the coming months we will be keeping readers informed of the work being done to make our community safer.”

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